If the editor is interested,I would be happy to help in correcting the numerous similar errors to make a more perfect Campbell's Operative Orthopaedics.


This text must be revised and make it shorter, for better...   July 24, 2001
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Is a good book, but it is 1-very large and editions are very long one to the other. 2- very expensive to be changed as often as desirable. 3- Canale must make a "Campbell's year book" as an apendix. Any way is a book every one in orthopaedics need at least for the beginning.


This book is very large and the up-date is bad and...   July 24, 2001
 6 out of 7 found this review helpful

The Campbell's was a good book when it was just 2 volumes, but with 4 volumens it has became a very large and hard to up-date book, it was better when editor was Crenshaw, but with Canale it has became a "heavy" book. I personally don't like it for my residents fellows, they buy the Mercer and the Apley's, and for surgical exposures the Hoppenfeld's. It must become a 2 volumes book, getting the 6th ed. as a sample, and maybe Canale will make a "campbell's yearbook".


Maybe its firts editions where better than now.   July 22, 2001
 1 out of 2 found this review helpful

When there was not internet and other media at hand, this was a classical textbook, but now there are more readeable textbooks in orthopaedics, and we can find them in amazon.This is a text for orthopaedics surgeons but is very large to be up-dated as soon as it has to be, and its price makes it a very expensive book for latin american fellows. Could be cheaper...and shorter.


May be shorter...but is an important textbook...   July 1, 2001
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Its is a good text for the trainee resident, but may be better and shorther, it's very wide field makes it hard to get up-date as often as possible(every 5 or less years).